Tom MacDonald’s Charlie Kirk Tribute Track Debuts on Billboard Hot 100 & Tops Digital Song Sales Chart

Tom MacDonald’s “Charlie,” a tribute anthem to the precocious Charlie Kirk, climbs to No. 1 connected Billboard’s Digital Song Sales illustration (dated Sept. 27) aft its archetypal afloat tracking week.

The song, released Thursday, Sept. 11, debuted astatine No. 2 a week earlier with 7,000 downloads sold successful the past hours of that Friday-Thursday tracking week, according to Luminate. “Charlie” past sold 18,000 Sept. 12-18 for its coronation.

The cut, which MacDonald issued connected his eponymous autarkic label, was released pursuing Kirk’s assassination, astatine property 31, connected Sept. 10 during an quality astatine Utah Valley University successful Orem, Utah. The sidesplitting and its aftermath dominated quality headlines and societal media speech successful the ensuing days amid sermon surrounding governmental unit and state of speech. President Donald Trump, among different notables, attended and spoke astatine Kirk’s memorial work connected Sept. 21 successful Glendale, Ariz.

MacDonald collects his eighth No. 1 connected Digital Song Sales, each of which person ruled for 1 week. He archetypal led with 2021’s “Fake Woke” and followed with “Ghost” successful 2023; 2 much leaders successful 2024, “You Missed” and “Goodbye Joe,” with Nova Rockafeller; and a chart-leading 4 champs frankincense acold this year: “Daddy’s Home,” with Roseanne Barr, “Man successful the Sky,” “The Devil Is a Democrat” and “Charlie.”

In summation to its sales, “Charlie” registered 4.7 cardinal authoritative streams successful the United States successful its archetypal afloat tracking week. The combined sums spark the song’s entranceway connected 3 multimetric Billboard charts: No. 6 connected Hot Rap Songs, No. 12 connected Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and No. 77 connected the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. The debut gives the rapper his 3rd introduction connected the foremost ranking, eighth connected the mediate database and 5th connected the Hot 100.

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